Pop really is a very pleasant experience, and probably the best I've had on a personal computer. 3/4 of my immediate family run it on Thinkpads; the only hold-out is a Gentoo teenager wanting to be "weird".
Hey man, sometimes you want a distro where you can really muck about with the internals. I started with redhat 6.2 and then went to slackware until I cared more about being productive than learning internals. It's good to explore as a teen.
Having GPT fill in (or 'out', if you prefer) the myriad of web-forms I'm currently wrestling with as a job-seeker would be amazing. There's only so many times each day I can copy and paste from my CV (résumé) without turning to drink.
Two videos by Steve Yegge should be enough to convince the most dyed-in-the-wool anti-Emacser to consider re-evaluating their position. (Here is the first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkIicfzPBys).
My top-tip, FWIW, is learning how to navigate the help system to the point that it drags you into the deepest layers of Emacs' source code.
> smex
The three packages, whichkey, helpful and marginalia are excellent for beginners for quick overviews of what's going on at the surface.
And, yes, Mickey P's work is undoubtedly of great value!
I think it was the popularity of Only Fools and Horses that gave rise to a pseudo-Cockney slang common in my time as an undergrad. Degrees were ranked:
